From news release

"This announcement follows another announcement today from the Company regarding collaboration with Synopsys and the creation of the Company's first Process Design Kit (PDK). This collaboration will see the development of an advanced model of the Company's PET devices targeting a technology node of 40-nm, a significant production node of highly integrated systems-on-chip (SoC) silicon CMOS device. The results of the physical devices at 40-nm developed at the "3rd party foundry" can then be correlated to the models of the PET technology developed using TCAD tools from Synopsys and vice-versa."

Wikipedia

Collaboration is working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals.[1] It is a recursive[2] process where two or more ororganizations work together to realize shared goals, (this is more than the intersection of common goals seen in co-operative ventures, but a deep, collective determination to reach an identical objective[

If POET were to have to pay for this service with money that would have had to be reported in the news release. Obviously Synopsys will get something out of it , obviously POET will get something ot of it. "Collaboration"